Re: [PATCH 6/7] Add a "--clone" option to "stg branch"

On 29/11/05, Chuck Lever [off-list ref] wrote:

Cloning a branch means creating a new branch and copying all of the
original branch's patches and its base to it.  Like creating a tag,
but this also preserves all the StGIT patches as well.

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+        print 'Cloning current branch to "%s"...' % clone

I would put a comma after this line and add sys.stdout.flush(). So
that 'done' is shown on the same line.

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+    def clone(self, target_series):
+        """Clones a series
+        """

Wouldn't it be easier to do a recursive copy at the directory level
(.git/patches/<branch> into .git/patches/<clone> and
.git/refs/bases/<branch> into .git/refs/bases/<clone>)? Is there
anything that could go wrong if we do this?

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